About us

What we do

mPay Connect provides strategic, product planning, and business development consulting services to clients interested in providing mobile payments services to their customers. mPay connect is experienced in serving clients with banked and unbanked customers world-wide.  We charge for our services as a retainer or by the project, depending on what our clients prefer.
Our corporate headquarters are in San Francisco, CA with affiliates world-wide.

Our objective

From rural villages in Kenya and Tanzania to urban transit stations in Hong Kong and South Korea, mobile payments adoption is transforming how people interact with money.  Our belief is that the ubiquity of mobile devices, coupled with electronic money movement, will change the landscape of financial services. This change will positively impact economies, businesses, and the livelihood of people in fundamental ways. To that end, we seek to bridge the gap between efforts in emerging and developed markets / banked and unbanked consumers, by connecting ideas, businesses, and people globally to drive mobile payments efforts forward.
Our background
Menekse Gencer founded mPay Connect, a consulting service for clients seeking to launch mobile payments. mPay Connect specializes in providing assistance in Strategy, Business Development and Product Planning. Prior to founding mPay Connect, Menekse led PayPal Mobile’s Business Development efforts in North America. During this time, she secured PayPal’s first Mobile Network Operator deal and launched PayPal Send Money on Sprint’s mobile wallet.  Previously, she ran Gateway’s Product Planning Division for Enterprise Software.
mPay Connect’s roster of clients includes a new mobile money venture in South Asia, Citigroup/SKTelecom (MMV), Wells Fargo, a prepaid mobile network operator whose customer base is unbanked, and EARN, a non-profit catering to the under-banked.  
Menekse began her career consulting to mobile network operators in Europe and later worked with high tech companies in Silicon Valley, followed by global financial institutions. With the convergence of these three industries for Mobile Financial Services, she is able to draw on her sixteen years of experience to provide unique perspectives around this complex ecosystem.
Menekse has an MBA from Wharton and a BA from Harvard University and was previously featured on the cover of Fortune Small Business Magazine. She is the founder of the Mobile Payments Series initiative in San Francisco/Silicon Valley with Harvard Business School and Wharton MBA Alumni Clubs and a speaker at Money Mobile Transfer conferences globally. She is also a board advisor to several startups in the mobile money industry.